This folder contains replication code for: "Does Opportunity Skip Generations? Reassessing Evidence from Sibling and Cousin Correlations."

Code by Ian Lundberg, ilundberg@princeton.edu

Forthcoming in Demography.

The submitted manuscript (prior to acceptance) is available on SocArXiv: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ueby7/

# Code

run_all.R runs all code files. This process took several hours.

# Data

This manuscript uses data from the PSID, which are available to researchers who register for an account online. Visit <https://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/> to make an account. There are three files.

1. Primary data file. Visit <https://simba.isr.umich.edu/VS/c.aspx> and search for carts associated with the email address ilundberg@princeton.edu. Select cart 241239 and download.

You will also need data from the PSID Family Identification Mapping System. Visit <https://simba.isr.umich.edu/FIMS/default.aspx>.  You will download two files.

2. fim9490_gidpro_BO_3_BAL.xlsx. To download this file, select the (Inter-generational (GID) Prospective) file for all (biological only) grandparents mapped prospectively (grandparent to child) in a (balanced map).

3. fim9490_gidpro_BO_2_BAL.xlsx. To download this file, select the (Inter-generational (GID) Prospective) file for all (biological only) parents mapped prospectively (parent to child) in a (balanced map).